300 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

Which was read, and referrad to the Committee on the
Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries.

Mr. Sulivan'e presented the following memorial:
To the Honorable,

Senators and Delegates of the Legislature of Maryland.

Your memorialist, Samuel Chase Barney, respectfully sub-
mits to your Honorable Bodies that he was appointed a mid-
shipman from Maryland in 1835, as evidenced per Navy Reg-
ister of 1836, under the caption of "Midshipmen," viz:

SAMUEL CHASE BARNEY.

State	State	State	Original
where b' n	fm which ap'd	of which a res.	ent'y into serv'e
Maryland	Maryland.	Maryland.	27th June, 1835.

and that he was summarily dismissed without a hearing in
1863, as fully set forth in the appended synopsis of his petition
to Congress, which he prays to be made part of this memo-
rial. He has always held that he owes fealty to his native
'State, by reason of his appointment under its apportionment,
and that she felt a pride or shame in the personal reputation
of her representatives in the National service, and that her
own honor was implicated in their moral and professional
standing ; hence, in reciprocation, he appeals to the Legisla-
ture of his native State for her interposition with Congress,
to vindicate his name and honor, with which "My Mary-
land" is more or less identified.

His petition to Congress is jet in abeyance, as Senator
Whyte, of the Naval Committee, who has assumed charge of
it, has thus far withheld it from the consideration of the
Committee, "biding a favorable occasion to bring it before
it, as he deems the case too meritorious to subject it to an
adverse report." The interposition and prestige of your
Honorable Bodies at this opportune time may supply that
favorable occasion, and thus now in this status of his case he
appeals to the Maryland Legislature ; and in the name of his
ancestors, and in memory of their distinguished services to

our country, to our native Maryland, and to the City of Bal-
timore, he evokes the interposition of your Honorable Bodies
in behalf of right and justice. For the recital of these ser-

vices, your memorialist is mainly indebted to Colonel Scharf's

"Chronicles of Baltimore."

Samuel Chase, my maternal grandfather, was a signer of
the Declaration of Independence from Maryland, and was

considered, in colonial times, as the "head-centre of the reb-